Top 10 Hanukkah Moments on TV
Abe Fried-Tanzer - December 6, 2015
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Program: Brothers & Sisters "Light the Lights" Airdate: December 10, 2006 Paige wants to connect with her Jewish roots so God will listen to her and cure her diabetes. After experiencing Nora's intensely lavish Hanukkah party and finding out that diabetes can't be cured, she decides that Christmas is again her favorite December holiday. |
Program: A Colbert Christmas Airdate: November 23, 2008 Jon Stewart sings to Stephen Colbert to educate him about Hanukkah. |
Program: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Airdate: Multiple Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert try their best to inform their viewers about Hanukkah with this montage of memorable mentions. |
Program: Even Stevens "Heck of a Hanukkah" Airdate: December 1, 2000 After accidentally breaking all of his family's Hanukkah presents, Louis (Shia LaBeouf) is transported to a world where he was never born. |
Program: Friends "The One with the Holiday Armadillo" Airdate: December 14, 2000
Bonus Clip: Phoebe rhymes Monica with Hanukkah in her Holiday Song. |
Program: The Nanny "The Hanukkah Story" Airdate: December 16, 1998 Fran wants to celebrate Hanukkah with Maxwell, and prays for a miracle when he has car trouble while in Boston. |
Program: The O.C. "The Best Chrismukkah Ever" Airdate: December 3, 2003 Seth is determined to merge his Jewish and Christian heritage and help Ryan and his family have the holiday party of a lifetime. |
Program: Rugrats "Chanukah" Airdate: December 6, 1996 After hearing that Grandpa Boris didn't get to play King Antiochus in a Chanukah play, the babies mistake the "meaning of Chanukah" and search for the "meany of Chanukah." |
Program: Saturday Night Live "John Travolta/Seal" Airdate: October 15, 1994 Adam Sandler doesn't want to get left out at Christmas time, so he shares his own celebration of the holidays with his Hanukkah song.
Bonus Clip: Neil Diamond covers Sandler's Chanukah song. |
Program: South Park "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" Airdate: December 1, 1999 Kyle starts singing the Dreidel Song to learn about Hanukkah, but the others mangle the words just a bit.
Bonus Clip: Kyle sings A Jew on Christmas from "Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo" (December 17, 1997). |
In 2009, Abe Fried-Tanzer was a student at New York University majoring in cinema studies and journalism. He makes it his priority each year to see every Oscar-nominated film and watch every new television pilot, and writes reviews and awards predictions on his personal movie and TV blogs.